Matt Braly

What grabs me about Matt Braly is the arc from in-the-trenches storyboard artist on Gravity Falls and Big City Greens to creator of his own series, Amphibia. That jump from craftsman to showrunner is hard, and pulling it off says a lot about both his eye and his persistence. I also admire how he wove his own heritage into the show's world rather than treating it as decoration. To me he represents the best kind of animation career: someone who learned the grammar of the medium from the inside before building an entire universe of his own. I find that quietly inspiring.

Name (English)

Matt Braly

Name (Japanese)

マット・ブラーリー

Reading

まっと・ぶらーりー

Born

November 8, 1988 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

Origin

Sacramento, California, United States

Occupation

animator / television director / storyboard artist / television producer / voice actor

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Braly
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
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Tags

• California
• animator
• television director
• storyboard artist

Last updated

2026-06-23

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